From achoi@demon.co.uk Thu Feb 23 13:13:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!demon!achoi From: achoi@demon.co.uk (Amy Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb23.131303.8316@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 13:13:03 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Amy Choi Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------ From bkarlsson@mit.edu Sat Feb 25 05:33:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mit!bkarlsson From: bkarlsson@mit.edu (Brian Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb25.053303.8497@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 05:33:03 GMT References: <1995Feb23.131303.8316@demon.co.uk> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Feb23.131303.8316@demon.co.uk>, achoi@demon.co.uk (Amy Choi) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Brian Karlsson | bkarlsson@mit.edu PGP Key fingerprint: D1DF 7D71 E2F0 B2E5 "Keep the channels open." From btanaka@uu.net Mon Feb 27 06:10:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uu!btanaka From: btanaka@uu.net (Bastien Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb27.061003.2054@uu.net> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 06:10:03 GMT References: <1995Feb23.131303.8316@demon.co.uk> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb23.131303.8316@demon.co.uk>, achoi@demon.co.uk (Amy Choi) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Bastien Tanaka Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "They will send a copy in my place." From nlopez@ox.ac.uk Tue Feb 28 03:06:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!nlopez From: nlopez@ox.ac.uk (Nadine López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb28.030603.4423@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 03:06:03 GMT References: <1995Feb23.131303.8316@demon.co.uk> <1995Feb25.053303.8497@mit.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb25.053303.8497@mit.edu>, bkarlsson@mit.edu (Brian Karlsson) writes: > That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. > My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Nadine López *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0